Dispensing and printing device for paper tape.



S. H. PAX'ION.

DISPENSING AND PRINTING DEVICE FOR PAPER TAPE, APPLICATION FILE-D OCT. 22, 191.7.

I Patented Aplz 23, 1918.

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DISPENSING AND PRINTING DEVICE FOR PAPER TAPE.

APPLICATION FILED 0CT.2Z, 19I7.

Iatentd Apr. 23, 1918.

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Be it known that l[,- SHERMAN: H. Pxxtrolv, a citizen of the United States, residmg at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State'fof Minnesota, have invented eertain newand useful Improvements in DISPBIIS-Y .ing and Printing Devices for Paper Tape,

of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to dispensing and.

printing devices for paper tape, andjha's for its object to provide convenient means forholding rolls of paper strip in position tobe easily drawn out for use .in lieu, of twine or tape for securing bundles. The holding mechanism is combined with devices for printing any desired legend, as the name of a dealer,-the trademark of special goods, in

conjunction with the dealers nameyas may 4 be desired, upon the tape as it is drawn out, and also" for applying to the tape .or strip mucilage or-"other gumming material by which the same is secured upon a bundle to hold it closed.

The means for eifecting the above indi= cated results are economically and elficientlydisposed and cooperate with the utmost accuracy in producing the desired results.

The full objectsand advantages of my invention will appear more fully in connection with the detailed description thereof and .are particularly pointed out in the claims. f

Tn the drawings, illustrating the application of my inventionin one form, I Figure 1 is a side elevation in partfragmentary, of an embodiment of 'my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional elevation of part of the mechanism shown in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the device viewed from the oposite side from Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a sectional ragmentary view showing the manner of mounting the reel. Fig. 5 is a detail of the securing means. Fig. 6 is a detail showing cated at 18. Within the cleft 18 isthe. centralportion 19 of a figure 8 washer 20, illusspecm au n bf LettersiPatent, j tpm m W, 23 119 1 Application fiIed'October 22,1911: Serial no. 197,846. x

trated in detailin'Fig. 5. Threaded upon 2 the portion 17 is a nut-21 which engages the washer 20 and through engagement thereof with one wall 13 of the reel .12 forces the other wall against tensioning springs 22. By screwing down a-greater or less extent on the hand nut 21 the proper-tensionat which to feed the paper tapelO'is secured: The strip of tape 10 passes from the roll-:11 beneath a guideroller 23 journaled upon a screw pin 24 threaded into a boss 25 on. a standard 26 formed in conjunction with base member-14. From beneath roller 23, the tape 10 passes over a platen roller 27 fjournaled upon a screw pin 28 carried in stand ard'26 and from which the tape passes backward beneath a guide roller'29 journaled -upon screw pin 30 supported in a boss 31 on standard 26. From beneath roller 29, the tape passes over the gumming roller 32 whlch hastrunnion extensions of its shaft 33 extended intoslots 34: and 35 in; the side walls 36 and 37"of base member 14, said trunnion extensions also passing into notched slots or open ended slots 38 and 39'of'the receptacle 40 which contains the gumming fluid or the water. This receptacle is, thus locked into position by the trunnion extensionsofshaft 33 but isreadily withdrawn through the open end of the base member box 41 by simply lifting out gumming roller 32.

It is obvious that the receptacle 40 may contain-mucilage which is directly applied to the strip of tape 10 by the roller 32, or,

as is more commonly the practice, the tape 10 may itself have beenpreviously gummed and the receptacle 40 contain water formoistening the gummed surface. In either event, the material within the receptacle 4:0

' is in the first instance or 'soon becomes imchanged and the receptacle 40 properly cleansed. It is, therefore, essential that the water receptacle or receptacle for the mucilage should be readily removable, and the arrangement herein described is very simple and eflicient for that purpose. The tape finally passes over a serrated cutting knife .pin 23 so as to tend to fall forward 1 roller 55.

44 mounted upon a cross'rail 45 atthe end -of box'member 41, bywhich the tape may be conveniently cut into such lengths 'as are desirable.

The several rollers 23, 27, 'and 29, heretofore described as well as printing and inking rollers hereafter described, are each into boss 31 of standard 26,- and this screw pin is surrounded by a sleeve 46 but extends inside of bushings 47 and 48 fast on the roller 29. V

Mounted for oscillation upon the screw pin 24 is a carrier 49 having side walls 50,

51 which formthe journal supports of saidcarrier and which are connected by top piece 52, as clearly shown in Fig. 2. J ournaled'upon a fixed shaft53 extending between the walls of carrier 49 is an inking roller 54. A printing roller 55, having its trunnions56 extending into slots 57 at the front side of carrier member 49 is normally held in contact with platen roller 27 or with the tape 10 where the same passesover the platen roller 27 by the weight of the carrier member49, which, as shown, ispivoted t3 an ring the printing roller 55 into contact with platen roller 27. An ink applying roller 58 has a bearing in blocks 59 extend ing through apertures 60 in the sides and 51 of carrier member 49. The blocks 59 have connected thereto springs 62 which are also connected with the side members 50 and 51 and which operate to hold the ink applying roller at all times in contact with both the inking roller 54 and the printing The operation of my invention has been givenwithv considerable fullness in connectionwith the description of the several parts. It is apparent that the printing roller may readily be removed and changed, merely by swinging backward the carrier 49; and whenever replaced is immediately and automatically brought into proper contact with the plate over platen roller 57 and the inking roller 58. The entire operation of printing and moistening the strips of tape as well as tearing them into the proper lengths is affected by merely drawing-the strip outward either in engagement with moistener roller 32, or out of engagement therewith as may be desired.- A spring ten sion device 64 is secured to box member 41 operating to take up slack in the strip and hold the same properly tensioned as it is drawn out. Although the weightof carrier member 49 is usually all that is necessary to impress the printing roller 55with suflicient force upon the take 10 as it passes eration.

It will thus be seen that I have provided a simple and effective construction for dispensing paper tape and printing and gumming ormoistening the same as it is drawn from the reel in which all of the parts are readily; removable fdr examination, replenishment,-cle'ansing or repair. Iclain'r:

1. A dispensing device for paper fastening-tape comprising means for holding a roll of said tape, guide rollers under and over which said-tape passes from the roll to bring a loop thereof in an elevated exposed position, a pivoted carrier having a front wall normally overhanging said exposed loop and being'provided with open ended slots, and a printing roller removably positionedin said slots and held by the carrier I in contact with the exposed loopof tape.

'2. In a dispensing device for paper fas-. tening tape, means for guiding the tape to bring it'into exposed position, a pivoted carrier normally overhanging the tape at such exposed position, and a printing roller having its trunnions positioned in open-ended slots in said carrier whereby said roller is removably held by the carrier in contact with the exposed portion of the tape.

3. In a dispensing device for paper-fastening tape, a platen for guiding and sup porting the tape, a pivoted carrier normally overhanging the tape as it passes over said platen, a printing roller, having its trunnions positioned in open-ended slots in said carrier whereby said roller is removably held by the carrier in contact with the tape on said platen, and means for moistening the tape as the same passes from the printing roller.

4. In a dispensing device for paper-fastening tape, means for holding a roll of such tape, a support, printing mechanism mounted on said support, a box-like member on the'lower portion of said support having slots inits side walls, a liquid container capable of being slid into said box like member and having slots adapted to register with the slots in the side walls, and a liquid applying roller having its trunnions normally lying in both of theaforesaid sets of slots whereby said container is locked in position.

5. A dispensing device for paper fastening-tape comprising means for holding a roll of said tape, guide rollers under and over which said tape passes from. the roll to bring a loop thereof in an elevated exposed position, a pivoted carrier having a frontwall normally overhanging said exposed loop and being provided with openended slots, a printing roller removably positioned in said slots and. held by the calrier in contact With the exposed loop of tape,

and ink applying means on the carrier which contact With the printing roller when the same is held positioned by the carrier against the exposed loop of tape.

6. A dispensing device for paper fasteningrtape comprising a base member having a box formed in aportion thereof, means for holding a roll of said tape, means for guiding the tape from said roll, a receptacle removably positioned in the base box, and a moisture applying roller in the path of movement of the tape journaled in the base box so as'to hold the receptacle positioned therein.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

SHERMAN H. PAXTON. 

